SHE WON THE WEST VIRGINIA PRIMARY BY A KAZILLION PERCENTAGE POINTS TUESDAY NIGHT, AND THAT, SHE SAYS, HAS TO MEAN SOMETHING!

Except the press doesn’t think so. The press is unimpressed. This may be the first time in election history in which the press has withdrawn from a race before the candidate.

As John Harwood of the New York Times and CNBC said on MSNBC Tuesday several hours before the polls closed, “The headline tomorrow will be: ‘Hillary Clinton Wins Big in West Virginia; Democratic Party Yawns.’”

Wrong! says the Clinton campaign. The party is not yawning, the party is finally waking up to the fact that Barack Obama is a loser!

As Howard Wolfson, Clinton’s communications director, said Tuesday: “I think superdelegates who have been moving toward Barack Obama in the last week are going to wake up tomorrow and say, ‘I’m a little concerned about the fact that our nominee, presumptive nominee, can’t win West Virginia. I’m a little concerned that he can’t win Pennsylvania or Ohio, or Michigan, or Florida.’”

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Obama, who made only two trips to West Virginia, is doing the equivalent of flicking dust from his shoulders. He didn’t even bother making a concession speech Tuesday night. He was campaigning in Missouri instead.

Missouri is a state he already won in the primaries, but that was the point: He doesn’t care about primaries anymore. Actual voters casting ballots? That is so yesterday.

As everyone knows, the Democratic nomination is determined not by voters actually voting, but by superdelegates choosing whomever they please. (They are the Democratic Party’s equivalent of the Electoral College, a safeguard against too much democracy. Unlike the Electoral College, however, superdelegates were not created in the 18th century but in 1984.)

What counts to Obama is that since his victory in North Carolina and narrow loss in Indiana last week, he has picked up 27 superdelegates and Clinton has picked up one and a half.

Roy R. Romer, a former governor of Colorado, a former Democratic Party chairman and a superdelegate, endorsed Obama on Tuesday, saying: “The math is controlling. This race, I believe, is over.”

Why did Romer decide to back Obama? Obama’s health care plan or his policy on Iraq or his position on the Alternative Minimum Tax? Naw.

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Rob Malley, a Middle East policy adviser to likely Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, resigned after news surfaced that he had been meeting with Hamas -- something Obama pledged he himself would never do.

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said Saturday Malley called the Obama campaign on Friday to sever ties with the candidate after learning the Times of London was publishing a story about his contacts with the terrorist group.

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Malley is an analyst at the Washington, D.C.-based International Crisis Group, specializing in the Israeli-Arab conflict. He told NBC News that his job "is to meet with all sorts of savory and unsavory people and report on what they say. I've never denied whom I meet with; that's what I do."

LaBolt said, "Sen. Obama strongly opposes talking to Hamas, a terrorist group committed to Israel's destruction. As president, he will work to isolate Hamas and target its resources, and rejects any dialogue until Hamas recognizes Israel, renounces terrorism, and abides by previous agreements."

LaBolt, downplaying Malley's role, said, "Rob Malley has, like hundreds of other experts, provided informal advice to the campaign in the past. He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future."

The issue of whether to have dealings with Hamas is a particularly sensitive matter for Obama, who needs to persuade skeptical Jewish voters that he is a strong supporter of Israel. Last week, presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) highlighted a Hamas leader's statement that he hoped Obama would win the White House. Asked about McCain's suggestion that Obama is "favored by Hamas," Obama said McCain was "losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination."

Last month, as former President Jimmy Carter was set to meet with Hamas leaders, Obama told a group of Jewish activists and clergy in Philadelphia that he would not sit down with Hamas.

YES, ABSOLUTELY, I care. This shows again what a great candidate she is and that she can win states that are important to win the general elections. It also shows that not everyone lets themself be manipulated by the media. GO HILLARY!!!! YOU'RE THE BEST! Close to 70% WOW!!!!!

It's bad form for Obama to spend a day in West Virginia campaigning while his wife will be spending several days campaigning in Puerto Rico... what message does that send rural voters? Puerto Rico matters more?

Talking heads and Politico feel they've picked Obama for the Democratic nominee so we should just take their word for it, and let them and the superdelegates decide, instead of the voters.

This is America. American voters decide who our nominee will be. Not 48 states ALL 50 STATES. Not just delegates, but VOTERS AS WELL.

The Clintons' 2006 tax return shows that, through a blind trust, the couple acquired an interest of an undisclosed in a private investment fund known as the Quellos Alpha Engine, based in the Cayman Islands. At the time, the fund was controlled by the Quellos Group of Seattle, one of the world's largest managers of mutual funds made up of hedge funds. Hollywood mogul Haim Saban is one of the biggest investors in Quellos and is also one of Hillary Clinton's most prolific fundraisers. A 2006 investigation into abusive tax shelters by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations reported that Quellos used offshore shell companies to engage in fake transactions that generated billions of dollars in capital losses on paper. One series of transactions, the report said, erased more than $2 billion in capital gains that would have been taxed, costing the U.S. Treasury hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

Hillary and Bill Clinton's tax returns from 2000-2006 reveal that he made at least $8 million from foreign sources and another $15 million from Yucaipa, which is owned by supermarket magnate and "Friend of Bill" Ron Burkle. all

In answer to the question posed in your headline - no, I could care less. Even Hillary's magical math cannot help her in winning the nomination. And after seeing her lack of skill with numbers in both her campaign finances ($20 million in debt and counting) and trying to find a way to the nomination, I think it's pretty clear this is NOT a person that needs to be in charge of a troubled economy.

This is the same state that Yelled out "Go back to Africa" to a UCONN player when UCONN was playing WVU. This state is pathetic.

92% of black voters vote for Obama and you bring up the race card in West Virginia?

DING DING DING YOU WIN!

The first Obama supporter to cry racisism in this thread... 9th post. The record so far was 3rd post, though every thread has a racist charge from an Obama supporter on the first page for the last 5 weeks.

The white vote has carried Obama through the nomination process, you can't win without it. oh those racist white democrats! Latinos vote for Hillary Clinton in record numbers... those racists!

However, the black vote takes the cake 92% voting for their race. you racist!

The returns released also reveal another outfit paid substantial sums to Bill - InfoUSA, a mailing-list company that was under investigation for providing lists of vulnerable senior citizens to telemarketers. all

Hillary and Bill Clinton's tax returns from 2000-2006 reveal that he made at least $8 million from foreign sources and another $15 million from Yucaipa, which is owned by supermarket magnate and "Friend of Bill" Ron Burkle.

Clinton lies. She lied about Michigan, she lied about Florida, she lied about the number of delegates needed to win. HIllary Clinton=Liar. I know that most Clinton supporters haven't graduated college, some graduated high school, but EVEN they should see this.

The Clintons' 2006 tax return shows that, through a blind trust, the couple acquired an interest of an undisclosed in a private investment fund known as the Quellos Alpha Engine, based in the Cayman Islands. At the time, the fund was controlled by the Quellos Group of Seattle, one of the world's largest managers of mutual funds made up of hedge funds. Hollywood mogul Haim Saban is one of the biggest investors in Quellos and is also one of Hillary Clinton's most prolific fundraisers. all

He outspent her in West Virginia, and she still won with a 40-point lead. If he's not worried, why keep spending? If it is impossible for Obama to lose, then why is he wasting his supporters' donations in the upcoming states? Why is he sending Michelle to Puerto Rico to campaign? (and any chance we can make her stay there?) Obama could tell his supporters to save their cash for the general election. He's going to need it. So why is he still sending emails to his supporters asking for more money to "close the deal" if it's as good as closed anyway?